Lot
1594

A SMALL PALE CELADON JADE DISC, HUAN

The circular disc of slightly convex cross-section, carved on either side in relief with a register of raised 'comma'-scrolls between thin single-line borders, the semi-translucent stone of an even yellowish pale celadon tone
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diam.

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Compare a very similar narrow huan with the same arrangement of the 'comma' spirals from the G.L. Winthrope Collection, now in the Fogg Art Museum illustrated by M. Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, 1975, p.236, no. 351, the looser non-interlocking scroll design seemingly a late development in the evolution of this pattern.